What
is "Virtual Designer" (VD)? It is a built-in
application which simulates HTML elements of main guestbook application page. The
design style for each element (such as color, border, background image,
font) may be changed on the fly from respective to each element style
selector. That makes possible to build the entire GuestBook design from
a scratch in VD by anyone with little or no experience in CSS styling,
save it as a "theme" in database and then apply to the GuestBook
software public
page in "Preferences" administrative page. All major layers of the GuestBook
script can be set to have background images for vivid 3D and other visual
effects.

What
is "Gradient Image Maker" (GIM)? It is a built-in
application for creating a color transition gradient images which could be used as background images for HTML layers assigned in VD.
Using Color Gradient images to render a background of HTML layers is a
popular method for creating 3D content appearance and visual effects.
GIM allows creating horizontal and vertical gradient images with up to 7
transition color points in variable sizes. To create gradient simply
apply respective color to 2 or more transition points. Created gradient references
could be saved in database and retrieved at any time for amendments and
for saving as image files in common background images folder. "Image
Browser" is another extension for viewing all background images as
thumbnails with option to span each image in any direction for a "true"
background preview. Optionally image could be deleted and externally
created images could be uploaded from "Image Browser" extension page.

From GIM to OGIM GIM is fairly simple gradient
image maker. More advanced version was introduced as an online service.
OGIM (Online Gradient Image Maker) has extremely powerful features
including various type of gradients and stripes maker.

What's new in v2.5

Cross-browser compatible "Virtual Designer"

Built in
"Country" field

New
"Gradient Images Maker" tool

Message
Preview

"True"
Multilingual with extensive language management

Turning
Number (CAPTCHA)

Two more
optional input fields

"One
page" guestbook structure for easy integration.

Note:
Older v2.1 and v2.4a of guestbook software are no longer available for distribution. Due to
the database restructure new version v2.5 cannot upgrade previous
releases of guestbook script.